United States-1958: Adults and Children Gather Around an Outdoor Dining Table

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

outdoor dining
group gathering
domestic leisure
childhood
rural life
food serving
intergenerational activity

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld · Eye level
Setting: outdoor · Leafy rural yard beside wire fencing and open fields
Time and weather: Daytime · Likely summer · Fair and sunny
Lighting: Direct sunlight with deep tree shade
People: 14 · Approximately fourteen adults and children appear across the pan, with overlapping and partially obscured figures; clothing includes skirts, dresses, light shirts and a boy's blue plaid shirt.
Objects: long dining table · pale tablecloth · picnic bench · metal outdoor cooker · cups · plates · serving dishes · wire fence · fence posts · trees
Colors: green · cream · blue · red · gray
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman stands beside a metal outdoor cooker near children seated at the table.
The woman turns toward the camera as the view begins moving across the gathering.
The leftward pan reveals more adults and small children around the covered table.
A woman in a blue dress bends across the foreground while the group continues the meal.

Adults and Children Gather Around an Outdoor Dining Table — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1958 home movie footage shows a woman beside a metal outdoor cooker as children sit at a cloth-covered dining table. The camera pans left to reveal more adults and young children beneath leafy trees, with fencing and open fields behind them. People lean over the table, handle dishes and glance toward the camera while a woman in a blue dress bends across the foreground.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800003869

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$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports documentary requests for circa 1958 American outdoor meals, children at a communal table and informal rural leisure.
Period detail: Full skirts, a blue day dress, collared shirts and short men's and boys' hairstyles support the tentative circa 1958 setting.
Home-movie behavior: Brief looks toward the lens interrupt the overlapping activity of serving food, tending children and moving around the table.
What appears in frame: The pan includes a metal outdoor cooker, a covered dining table, seated children, standing adults, leafy trees, wire fencing and distant fields.
Film character: Soft projected-film detail, visible grain, muted color, occasional specks and uneven sunlit exposure give the scene its archival texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot that introduces the size and arrangement of the outdoor gathering before closer dining views.
Historical context: The shared table and adults attending to young children show informal outdoor social life, although individual relationships and the occasion are unknown.
Research note: Adults, minors and a domestic yard are visible; copyright licensing does not itself establish likeness or property permissions.
Research search match: Matches searches for circa 1958 American home movies of outdoor dining, rural gatherings and adults serving children.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's cooking, helping children eat and camera-reaction clips, then other United States footage circa 1958 and broader outdoor meal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In the United States, circa 1958, a woman stands beside a metal outdoor cooker while a boy in blue plaid sits near cups on a covered table. — A woman turns toward the camera beside the outdoor cooker; a seated boy looks back from the table.
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Two boys in pale green and blue plaid shirts sit beside an outdoor table in the United States, circa 1958, with a woman and cooker behind them. — The widening view includes two seated boys, a standing woman and the fenced field beyond the yard.
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Adults and children gather at a long outdoor table in the United States, circa 1958; a man in a pale shirt stands in the foreground. — More of the gathering comes into view as adults lean toward dishes and young children sit along the table.
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A woman in a blue dress bends beside a busy outdoor dining table beneath trees in the United States, circa 1958. — The pan ends on the larger group, with children seated at the table and a woman bending in the foreground.
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